The Green Bag
300 Fish
and
Game
Commission.
Editorial
Review, v. 2, p. 253 (Mar.).
“We must plant 50,000,000 trees annually. We must have money with which to do 1t. The increase of forest lands on a large scale is vitally urgent. We must lift the tax burden to some extent on planted land. We must promulgate laws designed to enooura e private lumberinéoalong economic lines. e must change the nstitution to meet present day exigencies. Arboricide must stop." Far Eastern Question. “American Afiairs." By A. Maurice Low. National Review, v. 55, p. 117 (Mar.). "The proposal put forward by Secretary Knox to neutralize the Manchurian railways has been rejected by the Great Powers, and the fact that it was made has aroused some resentment both in apan and Russia. . . . "Mr. Knox has ad no training in diplo macy, but he is a lawyer of great experience, and it is as a lawyer. rather than as a pro fessional diplomat. that he is conducting the international relations of the United States.
In the trial of a suit a lawyer often wants to get certain facts into the record, not so much for the direct bearin the have on the question at issue, but for t e e ect they have on {udge or jury. Mr. Knox, I have reason to elieve, had a definite pu se to serve; he wanted to write certain t 'ngs into the international record and lay the foundation for a future line of attack." Literature. “The Law According to Charles Dickens." By Sheriff Fyfe of Glasgow. 26 Scottish Law Review 85 (Mar.). Abstract of a paper read before Glasgow Dickens Society. “Charles Dickens was re-eminentl the novelist of the law, and gis la ers d a hold upon the public ima 'nation ar surpass ing that of any other aut or. . . . ‘Charles Dickens knew better than to present his readers with unreal lawyers. The strength of his le al portraits was their realit; but even t e master himself could not a together divest himself of the common habit of humanity, to let its particular personal experience color its views of a profession like the law. Dickens did not love the law. for his experience as a suitor had not been fortunate. . . . "Dickens, he said, knew the legal world from the inside, and made no such mistakes as many authors—even those of high standin —sometimes make. He laid down no ba law, and his lawyers were living characters. . . . Some of Dickens‘ lawyers were eccentric, some commonplace, some dry-as-dust, some full of humor; no two of them were alike. but each was typical of a class. By his writ ings, Dickens exposed some cruel features of the legal system of his da, and there was no doubt that his books di much to soften some of its harder features." Railways. "The Great Millionaire Mill: The Remarkable Story of the Southern
Pacific
Railroad."
By
Charles
Edward
Russell. Hampton's, v. 24. p. 479 (Apr.). An interesting tale of the buildin and financing of the Pacific system of rai roads and of the making of the great fortunes de rived from them. Scotland Yard. “The Lighter Side of My Oficial Life. VI, At Scotland Yard." By Sir Robert Anderson, K.C.B. Black wood's, v. 187, p. 356 (Mar.).
The writer gives reminiscences of the period of the ‘Jack the Ri per" murders in the Whitechapel district of ndon, which occurred when he was at the head of Scotland Yard. He says: “One evening in the year after the Chicago Exhibition, I dined with some American gentlemen at the Hotel Cecil, and they gave me some astounding particulars of the number of homicides in that city. . . . Presently they asked me how many murders we had in London in a year. . . . I told them that the preceding year was the worst I had known, as we had had twenty murders; but the average was fifteen or sixteen. They threw down knives and forks, and stared at me and at each other. My words traveled across the Atlantic, and I received several letters. including one from a prominent official in Washington, asking me if I had spoken seriously and by the book." Socialism. "Why Socialism is Imprac ticable: Its Latest Official Program." By Charles R. Miller. Century, v. 79, p. 903 (Apr.). “There is no antidote to socialism. It was born in man when he first fought over the spoils of the chase and raged a ainst his sturdier cave-mate who seized t e larger share. But there are checks and palliatives. . . . The palliatives are bein administered all the time in every civili land, by the action of public opinion upon the makers of the laws. . . . The evils of which socialism justly complains are curable and being cured." ‘.l‘stt's Administration. “A Political Balance
Sheet."
Editorial. Outlook, v. 94, p. 742
(Apr. 2). "Mr. Taft’s record as 1e 'slative adviser is a remarkable one; wort y of far more consideration and praise than have been bestowed upon it. “One Year of Mr. Taft." By Edward G. Lowry. North American Review, v. 191, p. 289 (Mar.). ‘ . "I doubt whether this uncertainty, this attitude of questioning now manifested toward the Taft Adrmnistration and the uprightness, honesty, purity and courage of its motives and convictions will last. Mr. Taft has the capacity and the desire to write himself down in history among the best of our Presidents." Tenement Houses. “City Housing; II, The Problem at Home." By Hollis Godfrey. Atlantic, v. 105, p. 548 (Apr.).
